I am sorry, but I have had so many distractions over this past week that I barely had any time to rest. At one point I was almost considering stopping this, but rest assure, I am back and
this is not dead. Anyways, I had a few ideas that I thought over for this project which I will be trying to put in effect, and even though I was close to getting everything finish, I wish to go through and rewrite a lot of stuff because re-looking at what I had prepared, I realize that I had rushed through in making it. As such I am not yet setting a date for the start of this game, but this is the time for the leaders of the nations to start deciding if they want to customize that background of their nation and if so, just send me a pm with the information, and if you wish you can even write up an entirely new background. Unless it is something extreme, that is a pretty good chance I will either incorporate into the nation's back ground, or even use it as an entirely new background for the nation. I will be putting up at least a basic background to give you some ideas.
Some of these background things for the nations can even be ingame stuff like choosing what your flag is (you can even send me an image to use), deciding if you want a different rank theme, or even making new rank themes, and even the simple color of your nation. The Cltr-F2 menu is great for doing some of these things.
@ShebI saw that you had wanted to change to a united Africa and it gave me a great idea. My basic idea is this:
The founding of trans-newton minerals has caused many tribes to begin tribal wars all across Africa for control over these resources. With a huge war stirring up in Africa, the threat ICBMs being used brought America to action. America began supporting tribes across Africa which lead to the creation of a large united democratic nation (name TBD) in southern Africa, America believed would be easily able to crush the other tribes and lead to a fully united Africa which America would have a huge influence in. It might have, if not for China also supporting several tribes with creating a communist state (name TBD) within the northern areas of Africa. The influence of these two superpowers has only increased the tensions in Africa, and now it is a war between North and South, Communism and Democracy.
This would lead to the total number of nations being 9 instead of 8, but within a few years one will eventually win and lead a fully United Africa. Tell me if you really do not like this idea, but pending complaints you are free to first pick at which side you want, and I will then take requests for control of the other side.